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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5015, 7 February 1885, Page 2

Sokk rich samples of tin from Benderaser, New South Wales, presented by Mr Or. Law lor, are now on Tiew itf the Public Library. They .comprise stream tin from Wutson's creek, and siui^b and loud lia.aud also a piece of wash dirt fro-;? the Giant's Den mine. A ■ample of iuhd^ nese i« aito abown.

At the Pollen street Lecture Hall to-morraw evening, Mr B. H. Taylor will speak on v The Hope of the Kighteous in Death." At Ike Temperance Hall, Mary street, Mr H. Exiey will speak ,on " The Witness of the Spirit."

A oonbidbbablb number of persons of a sporting .turn of mind repaired to Kirikiri this afternoon, to witness the contesting of the five erenta in the additional programme issued in ' consequenco of protests entered at the meeting on the 29th ult. As the weather is fine, the gathering should pass off pleasantly.

A special meeting of cricketers and footballers is cilled for this evening, to consider the advisableness of holding sports on St. Patrick's Day.

A notice in another column appoints the times and places for the nomination of Licencing Committees for t'ao South, Central, and North Thames districts. The nominations will take place on the 17th, 18th, and 19 th insts. respectively, and the elections (if a poll is required), on the 25th, 26th, and 27th instants.

An instance of extraordinary precocity in crime came before Mr Whitford, R.M., at Cbristchuroh yesterday morning. A boy of 10 years, named G-eorgo Hawkins was conT\?ted of breaking into a house at Prebbleton, while the occupants were away harvesting. He carried off a cheque for £6 4s 9d, £1 10a in cash, a silver watch, and other articles of value. He was sent to the Burnham Industrial School.

A IADIFS 1 branch of the Socioty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has boen established in Wellington, '

Db Mattnsell, ex Health Officer, has sent in a report to the Dunedin City Council stating that the water from the Silverstream reservoir is unquestionably polluted by the nearness of the slaughter-yards, piggeries, &0., from which the seagulls convey the offal to the reservoir. He Bays that with a few feet of warm weather an epidemic will be almost certain.

Last Tuesday was a busy day at the Auckland Post-office. The following correspondence passed through s- -Received 104 bags, contain* ing 10,444 letters, 44 post cards, 2523 book?, 16,620 papers. • Desputched 84 bags, containing 13,572 letters, 81 post cards, 1739 books, and 14,452 papers. Totals, received and despatched, 188 bags, containing 24,016 letters, 125 poßt cavde, 4262 books, 31,072 newspapers. 1

Bupbbt Jacomb, Inepecfcoi of Nuisances and Pouudkeeper at Patea, attempted suicide yesterday /Doming by cutting his throat. He is now in the Hospital, and is expected to recorer." The body of the boy Sinclair, who was drowned in Auckland harbor at the Sunday School excursion in the GHenelg steamer on regatta day, has been found at Bangitoto reef.

. Ix is understood that the Minister of Public

Works haß decided to allow children who have to use the railway to, attend school freo p&Bßes for that purpose.

An Auckland telegram reports that Harry Martin, the son of Albin Martin, who went out shooting on Thursday, was found shot dead in a swamp near St. John's Lake, yesterday. The trigger of the gun had apparently been caught at a wire fence.

An exceedingly fine sample of plums, grown by Mr E. Hudson, at Parawcii, were exhibited to-day in the siiop window of Mr Cole, fruiterer, Owen,street. They were very large, and their quality is on a par with their size. - ■'..■•■-. '•,.. . ''.'■■

A, Sjtdnby message reports that at the Armidale Quarter Sessions, Hugh M'Caffery, who shot at Bishop Torregiani, on Christmas Day, was acquitted, on the ground of insanity. He was committed to the Armidale Gaol

during her Majesty's pleasure.

A new natire industry has been developed among the Rotorua Maoris. Mr Kirkwood, of Cambridge), purchased from a Maori the other duy a number of billiard cues, made of maire, at a considerably lower rate than the imported article costs. The cues, though rather green, are well finished/and especially well balanced, and the amount of patient lubor needed in making them must hare been •considerable.—W. Times.

The following interesting telegram has been received by the New South Wales Government geologist, Mr 0. S. Wilkinson, from Dv R. yon lendenfcld :—" Cooms.—l hare discovered* and photographed an undoubted glacier, of which there are traces in several valleys, above 5800 feet high, on Mount Eos* ciusko. The peak measured by Baron yon Mueller, Professor Neumeyer, &c, is not the highaet. I photographed the panorama from the summit; on » splendid day, and took many of the bearings. I have made the first ascent of the higher peak of the higheat mountain in Australia, and shall be able to compile maps of the whole of the mountain."

A'.trsEXtti addition is about to be made to the plant'" of the Victorian Railway Depart* ment, in tbe shape of a portable apparatus for electric lighting. The entire installation, engine, dynamos, &c, will be fixed on a sort of waggon, which can be conveyed anywhere by road or rail. It will bo applicable to maoy useful purposes. In the event of a collision ,or a breakdown on the railway in the night time, it is essentially nooessary that the lino should be cleared.and injury to the rails repaired with as much promptitude as possible. The locomotive electric-lightning apparatus will be especially useful on such occasions. The waggon can' be run into a truck and conveyed to the spot, and in a short time four or five arc lights will illuminate the scene of the disaster, enabling tho workmen to carry w on their operations almost as well aB in broad daylight. A good deal of repairs'to telegraph and signal wires have necessarily to be made in the night, arid the men at present have to work by the fitful light of torches or bonfires. The apparatus has juat been received from England. It is now being unpacked and fitted, and an experitneatttl lighting will be made in the courne of a week or bo, under the supervision of Mr Murray, electrical engineer to tho Railway department.—Australasian.

. WIIiKBS, the SLiorjiland jeweller, is selling bia choice and largo stock of jewellery at reduced prices., New goods, chaste and beautiful ia design. Must bo sold. Call early. Watch Glasses, Sixpence. ; Watch Keje, Threepence.—[Adyt.]

" There are sciences as well as many arts of getting rich. Poisoning people of large estates was one employed largely in the middle ages; adulteration of food of people of small estates is one employed largely now."—Buskin. What people dare not do in their own city, they perpetrate in Auckland. Adulterated pepper ia now continually sent by a Southern firm ua fit for your consumption. Any onejean o.isily detect the fraud'by comparing the same with ours ; which is praparcd and Bold by ua genuine only. Brown, Barrett, and Co. also guarantee that their genuine Mocha and Ceylon coffees can be relied upon'; and that their various brands Excelsior, Standard, Lion, Anchor, and Crown, consist of pure coffee, mixed with pure chicory in such proportions as we have found from experience to be generally approcialed.—Brown, Barrett, and Co., Elliottstreet, Auckland.